Collar-button.



H. C.-DEGNER, JAB. COLLAR BUTTON.

APPLIoATIoN FILED MAB. s. 1'910.

1,026,153.' 4 Patented May 14, 1912.

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HERMAN C.

DEGNER, JR., OF LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA.

COLLAR-BUTTON.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented May 14, 1912.

Application filed March 3, 1910. Serial No. 547,118.

To all whom t may concern Be it known that 1, HERMAN C. DiieNinR, J r., a citizen of the United States, residing at Los Angeles, in the county of Los Angeles and State of California, have invented new and useful Improvements in Collar-Buttons, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to collar buttons, studs or like devices, and the object of the invention is to produce a button having an improved construction which will facilitate its being passed through the button holes of a garment, and having a simple construction enabling the head of the button to be held in position to pass through, and locked in a transverse position to prevent an accidental 4 withdrawal from the button hole.

In the annexed drawing which fully illustrates my invention, Figure 1 is a perspective showing the collar button constructed according to my invention, certain parts being broken away. This View shows the head of the button in the position which it assumes when the button is to be passed through a button hole. Fig. 2 is a side elevation of the collar button shown in Fig. 1, the head being shown in its normal position in dotted outline. Fig. 3 is an enlarged detail view showing the edge of the head, and illustrating the form of the spur socket, the spur being in cross section. Fig. 4: is a side elevation upon an enlarged scale showing the upper end of one of the arms of the yoke on the ends of which the spurs are formed. Fig. 5 is an enlarged detail elevation of one of the yoke arms. Fig. 6 is a horizontal cross section of a yoke arm taken on the line 6-6 of Fig. 5. Fig. 7 is a front elevation showing a portion of the button head and yoke, and illustrating a modiied section. Fig. 8 is an elevation upon an enlarged scale, showing a portion of the edge of the head when made of modified form and particularly illustrating the form of the spur. Fig. 9 is an elevation showing the upper end of the forks of the modified form, and particularly illustrating the form of the socket, which receives the spur.

Referring more particularly to the parts, 10 represents the base of a collar button which may be of any suitable form, and provided at its central point with an upwardly extending post 11, a yoke 12 extends upwardly said yoke being formed integral with the post and being curved so as to form a bow as indicated. At their upper ends the arms of the yoke are formed with inwardly project-ing spurs 13. The upper edges 14. of these spurs are substantially horizontal and at right angles to the vertical axis passing up through the post 11. Furthermore these upper edges 141-. are rounded as shown most clearly in Fig. The spurs, as viewed in side elevation, present inclined edges 15, and these edges are sharp; the spurs present the form shown in Fig. 3 in cross section, each spur being in the form of a tapered blade with a knife edge at the edge 15. The head 16 of the button is in the form of a disk slightly thicker near its center and this disk is supported so as to rotate on a horizontal axis between the spurs.

ln order to enable the head to be engaged by the spurs and held in either a vertical plane as shown in Fig. 2 in full lines or in a horizontal plane (as shown in the dotted lines), I provide sockets 17. These sockets are of angular form with their axes presenting two diametrically opposite points or notches 1S which are disposed in the central plane of the head, and at right angles to this plane the sockets present two other diametrically opposite points or grooves 19. Between the points 1S and 19, the sockets present convex faces 20. It should be understood that the arms of the yoke 12 are resilient and the head 16 of the collar button is suspended between the spurs so that its lower edge will swing clear of the arms, as indicated in Fig.

1. As shown in Fig. 3 when the head 16 is in a vertical plane the edges 15 are disposed in the notches or points 18 of the sockets, while the rounded upper or rear edge 13 of each spur is disposed against the convex faces 20, which are disposed uppermost. This is the position in which the head is placed when it is to be passed through the button hole. The resiliency of the yoke 12 tends to hold the head in this position, for the reason that if the head is rotated slightly the convex faces 20 will pass under the edges 15 and tend to force the arms of the yoke apart. lf the head 16 is rotated until it comes into a horizontal plane at right angles to the vertical axis of the post 11, the edges 15 will engage in two of the notches or points 19 and tend to hold the head in this position. From this arrangement it will be seen that when in an intermediate position the sockets 17 will tend to spread the arms of the yoke 12 apart so that the result is that the arms tend resiliently to .hold the head in either of the two positions indicated. In connection with the arms of the yoke 12, attention is called to their form in cross section. As shown in Fig. 6 they are flattened in a plane at right angles to the vertical plane of the arms and this enables them to be eXed in or out with great facility.

In Figs. 7 to 9 I show a modified form in which, instead vof forming the spurs on the arms, I form spurs 21 on the edges of the head 22. As indicated in Fig. S these spurs 21 are of diamond shape when viewed end on, that is, they are of pyramidal form. The

'arms 23 of the yoke are provided vwith sockets 24 which conform to the shape of the spurs, being of diamond form like the spurs and presenting four notches or corners 25, which are adapted to receive the edges of the pyramid of each spur. vVith spurs and sockets of this form it will be evident that when the head is in a vertical plane or in a horizontal plane the edges of the spurs will engage in the corners of the sockets as indicated in Fig. 7, but at intermediate positions A the edges of the pyramidal spurs will engage the side faces of the sockets so that the convexed, and each spur extending .into a Y socket and having an angular edge to contact with two walls of the socket, and an upper surface adapted to Contact with the opposite walls of the socket.

In witness that I claim the foregoing I have hereunto subscribed name this 24th day of February, 1910.

HERMAN C. DEGNER, JR.

Vitnesses:

l F. D. AMMEN,

EDMUND A. STRAUSE.

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